Shaw v. State

The plaintiff in erro'r, Bob Shaw, was convicted in the district court of Coal county, at the September,. 1910, term, on a charge of larceny-of domestic animals, and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a period of five years.

The property'stolen consisted of two mules belonging to the-Western Coal & Mining Company, at Coalgate. They were taken on the 28th of April, 1910, and later recovered at Palestine, Tex. Will Hill testified on behalf of the state, and confessed to assisting the accused, Bob Shaw, in stealing the mules in question,, and detailed the…